David Moyes had a total of £127m of players on the West Ham bench at the Etihad on Wednesday night on what must be a club record.
Fabian Balbuena (£3.5m), Pablo Zabaleta (Free), Felipe Anderson (£41.5m) , Manuel Lanzini (£10.75m) , Jarrod Bowen (£22m) , Sebastien Haller (£45m) and Darren Randolph (£4.25m) were the seven West Ham players to fill the bench when the Premier League game kicked off against Manchester City,
Pablo Fornals who cost the Hammers another £25m last summer could not even make the bench.
By comparison, the Hammers starting XI only in Manchester cost the club £72.m to assemble
Fabianski £7m, Ryan Fredericks (Free) Issa Diop (£22m) Angelo Ogbonna (£10m), Aaron Cresswell (£4.3m), Arthur Masuaku (£6.4m) Declan Rice (Free) Tomas Soucek (£3.5m), Mark Noble (Free), Robert Snodgrass (£10.8m) Michail Antonio (£8.5m)
It remains to see who the manager will leave on the bench for Monday’s away game against Premier League leaders Liverpool.
Haller and Anderson combined £87m says it all – have a good clear out at least for the Championship. Wouldn’t fancy the majority of our Prima-Donnas on a cold, rainy November night at Millwall !
Value doesn’t translate into quality or ability regrettably!
Regardless of who didn’t make the squad, what substitutes were or weren’t used or how the team was set up, the simple truth is we just aren’t good enough.
And given the way that the club is run, especially in terms of recruitment, that should surprise nobody!
This is really embarrassing.
Yet still the manager only uses two subs.
The 2nd one with 10 minutes to go.
Negative,embarrassing manager.
Zab comes on and we concede.
It really is beyound believe how he was employed.
I loathe him more than any manager we have had and the board are culpable as they employed him
Regardless of who you have on the bench you would not please everyone. I would have started Bowen and Anderson in place of Snoddy and Masuaku. The rest were fine with me.
How much was on the ManC bench? On the pitch?
Where was yarmalenko?
What a meaningless post this is, are you trying to suggest, for example, that Rice should not have been on the pitch because he was free.
No, I wasn’t trying to suggest that, it was somewhat it was a bit of trivia but mostly to highlight a lot of our recent investment was sitting on the bench
still injured